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Defunding The Police?
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| During the George Floyd riots, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey abandoned the city's third precinct, surrendering it to rioters who then set fire to it. | |
| The mayor defends abandoning the third precinct. | |
| If we were to continue to attempt to hold the third precinct, very likely there would have been hand-to-hand combat, likely serious injury, and maybe death. | |
| After the George Floyd riots, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was in the spotlight to defund the police. | |
| Majority of Minneapolis's city council is pledging to defund or dismantle the police department following the death of George Floyd. | |
| However, the city's mayor, Jacob Fry, opposes that. | |
| Protesters chanted, go home, Jacob, over the weekend after he said he does not support dismantling the department. | |
| You campaigned on reform. | |
| That's part of how you got elected. | |
| You have reformed the body cam policy. | |
| You have banned warrior training, but we still have the George Floyd incident. | |
| Is reform enough? | |
| I don't want to comment on precisely what the council meant by disbanding or ending the police force. | |
| I think there's varying opinions. | |
| But what I'm saying is, look, I'm not for abolishing, but deep structural reform. | |
| Absolutely, we have to make it happen. | |
| To reform the police, they decided to replace SWAT teams with social workers. | |
| Governor Tim Walz gave it his stamp of approval while admitting they don't have the staff to do it. | |
| This idea of violence interveners and problem solvers or social workers pairing with police to respond to some mental health calls. | |
| Many of those are domestic situations that escalate very quickly and turn violent. | |
| How realistic is it to have a social worker respond with a police officer in real time? | |
| I'm just curious, would it almost require a separate force of social workers and violence interveners to respond to these calls? | |
| And how would that work in practical case? | |
| Well, here's what I would tell you is when it comes to social workers, I've been talking about this forever. | |
| I think we talk about Minnesota and I oftentimes point the rosy picture of where we rank on certain things. | |
| You've heard me say this as a teacher. | |
| We rank last on school counselors and social workers. | |
| So one of the things is of trying to find those people, trying to have them out there and trying to have them integrated into real life. | |
| Last week, on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024, Davis Maturi was doing yard work outside his South Minneapolis home when his neighbor shot him. | |
| Surveillance video obtained by NBC Minneapolis affiliate Carol Evan shows the moment Matori fell to the ground. | |
| His neighbor, John Sawchak, was then charged with second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, and stalking and harassment because Maturi has been reporting him to the police for over a year. | |
| According to court documents, Matori had called police on Sawchak 19 times in the last year, alleging his neighbor had threatened to kill him and his wife, brandished a knife at them, and hurled racial slurs. | |
| Maturi was told by a female police commander that her officers were frightened of Sawchak and she didn't want to put them at risk. | |
| After shooting his neighbor, Sawchak was not arrested. | |
| They sent social workers and psychologists to try and de-escalate the situation. | |
| And after days of this, Frey and O'Hara had a press conference to complain about the public's outrage. | |
| To that victim, I say, I am sorry that this happened to you. | |
| But it could not be anything further from the truth to say that we did nothing or that we just simply don't care. | |
| That's not true. | |
| Everything that we do is impacted by the reality that the police department is much smaller today than what it was prior to 2020, and we are dealing with a much higher call load. | |
| We cannot, as a community, on one hand, say, hey, we want cops to use less force. | |
| We want less SWAT teams. | |
| We want more de-escalation. | |
| And then when we actually do that, say, how come the cops didn't use the SWAT team right away? | |
| We have been there 24-7 the last few days. | |
| We have been using our behavioral threat assessment team. | |
| We have used a psychiatrist. | |
| We have spoken to this individual's family. | |
| We have made dozens of attempts to attempt to contact this person. | |
| But again, to say that we simply don't care or we did nothing is simply not true. | |
| This feels a whole lot more like politics than it does like somebody that's trying to find a solution. | |
| We're about trying to find a solution right now. | |
| Again, less politics. | |
| That kind of thing is gross. | |
| Hours after this press conference, Sawchak was finally arrested and taken into custody. | |
| If you're saying you're scared, what does that do to me, you know? | |
| Reporting for InfoWars, this is Greg Reese. | |
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